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8 | JUNE 2016 AUSTRALIAN HOTELIER
NEWS
VICTORIAN PUBS
GET BEHIND GOOD
BEER WEEK
Good Beer Week celebrated its sixth anniversary last month with the
largest program the festival has ever put together. 270 events took place
mainly in pubs in Melbourne and in regional Victoria. Events were
focused around five different streams – Foodie, Good Times, Beer 101,
Beer Geek and Beer Lover – to cater to different tastes and levels of
beer appreciation.
One pub that got in on the Good Beer Week action was The Astor
in Carlton. It teamed up with Melbourne brewery Barrow Boys
for a week-long tap takeover, plus a ‘harvest to ferment’ beer and
dining experience.
Barrow Boys head brewer Ash Hazell and The Astor’s head chef
Charles Woodward collaborated on a five-course, deconstructed
degustation dinner called ‘Harvest to Ferment’, that would reflect the five
stages of beer brewing. Dishes included fennel-smoked salmon and hop-
roasted goat shoulder, and each were paired with a Barrow Boys beer.
Darran Smith, managing director of The Astor, recognised the
importance of taking part in the festival: “Good Beer Week is such a
great way of pushing craft beer from being recognised as ‘craft beer’ into
a space where it is being recognised as just ‘beer’, and good beer at that.
The diversity in events is fantastic and it really feels like you can choose
any event that suits your vibe.”
“At the Astor we really focus on the diners’ experience while also
serving modern, contemporary food so we really wanted to play up on
the beer and foodie adventure,” Smith explained.
Good Beer Week events varied in pubs across the state. Food
pairing featured heavily, with events like a degustation brunch at The
Metropolitan Hotel with Temple Brewing, ‘Best of the Clare Valley’ beer
and food at The Lincoln Hotel, and a street food festival and block party
at the Cambrian Hotel. Tap takeovers were also popular, with Melbourne
beer institution The Local Taphouse showcasing British beers, Young &
Jacksons getting specific with a range of IPAs from San Diego, and the
Fox Hotel dedicating their taps to female brewers.
HOTELS HAVE
HEARTS RAISES
$600,000
By Andy Young
The annual Hotels Have Hearts charity dinner took place in Sydney
recently, with hoteliers raising a record-breaking $600,000 for the St
Vincent de Paul Society.
In the 15 years the event has been running Hotels Have Hearts has
raised over $3.6 million, with the funds going towards St Vincent’s services
across Australia including; meals programs, crisis accommodation, family
services and refuges for women and children escaping domestic violence.
The event started in 2001 having been founded by a group of generous
hoteliers and is supported by the Australian Hotels Association New South
Wales (AHA NSW).
Speaking at the event, AHA NSW president Scott Leach said: “Hotels
Have Hearts is a statement that we care, that we are prepared to help, not
because we stand to gain through publicity or notoriety but because the
NSW hotel industry believes in a society where those with much will help
those with little.
“The true value, and magnificent contribution, St Vincent de Paul
Homeless Services provide to our city is hard to describe.
“They are the ones who reach out to those others step over, they offer
these forgotten people shelter, comfort and a pathway back to society.
“I say to those in this room, every dollar you raise tonight will sustain
hope in a winter of anxiety and need.”
The evening’s MC was comedian Vince Sorrenti and special guests
included Governor General, Sir William Deane AC KBE, NSW Deputy
Premier Troy Grant and Lieutenant Governor of NSW Tom Bathurst AC.
Dean Romeo of Barrow
Boys (left) and Darran
Smith of The Astor
AHA NSW president
Scott Leach
The fundraising dinner
has run since 2001
The Harvest to
Ferment dinner